Stakeholder Engagement Contract Job Trends in the City of London

Stakeholder Engagement
Central London > City of London

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in the City of London requiring Stakeholder Engagement skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 15 July 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
15 Jul 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 28 43 98
Rank change year-on-year +15 +55 +33
Contract jobs citing Stakeholder Engagement 152 96 34
As % of all contract jobs in the City of London 6.25% 5.16% 1.58%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 7.23% 5.49% 1.73%
Number of daily rates quoted 112 75 24
10th Percentile £355 £418 £374
25th Percentile £481 £488 £430
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £570 £563
Median % change year-on-year -3.51% +1.33% -10.86%
75th Percentile £675 £668 £650
90th Percentile £775 £770 £723
Central London median daily rate £550 £570 £531
% change year-on-year -3.51% +7.29% -13.27%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1 0 0
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile £72.25 - -
Median hourly rate £74.50 - -
75th Percentile £76.75 - -
90th Percentile - - -
Central London median hourly rate £66.71 - £27.81

All Process & Methodology Skills
City of London

Stakeholder Engagement falls under the Processes and Methodologies category. For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all contract job vacancies requiring process or methodology skills in the City of London.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 2,101 1,748 1,971
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the City of London 86.39% 93.88% 91.42%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,425 1,127 1,351
10th Percentile £368 £344 £363
25th Percentile £453 £436 £463
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £550 £575
Median % change year-on-year - -4.35% -4.17%
75th Percentile £675 £680 £688
90th Percentile £775 £775 £800
Central London median daily rate £550 £550 £563
% change year-on-year - -2.22% -6.25%
Number of hourly rates quoted 30 21 19
10th Percentile £17.60 £17.08 £19.63
25th Percentile £18.75 £24.66 £20.36
Median hourly rate £20.25 £31.00 £27.00
Median % change year-on-year -34.68% +14.81% -22.86%
75th Percentile £42.56 £56.75 £55.75
90th Percentile £60.25 £63.75 £101.50
Central London median hourly rate £23.16 £32.50 £27.81
% change year-on-year -28.74% +16.86% -20.54%

Stakeholder Engagement
Job Vacancy Trend in the City of London

Historical trend showing the proportion of contract IT job postings citing Stakeholder Engagement relative to all contract IT jobs advertised in the City of London.

Stakeholder Engagement job vacancy trend in the City of London

Stakeholder Engagement
Daily Rate Trend in the City of London

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in the City of London citing Stakeholder Engagement.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in the City of London citing Stakeholder Engagement

Stakeholder Engagement
Daily Rate Histogram in the City of London

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Stakeholder Engagement in the City of London over the 6 months to 15 July 2026.

Daily rate histogram for Stakeholder Engagement in the City of London

Stakeholder Engagement
Hourly Rate Trend in the City of London

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in the City of London citing Stakeholder Engagement.

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in the City of London citing Stakeholder Engagement

Stakeholder Engagement
Contract Job Locations in the City of London

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Stakeholder Engagement within the City of London region over the 6 months to 15 July 2026. The 'Rank Change' column provides an indication of the change in demand within each location based on the same 6 month period last year.

Location Rank Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Matching
Contract
IT Job Ads
Median
Daily Rate
Past 6 Months
Median Daily Rate
% Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Live
Jobs
London Bridge - 1 £550 -
Stakeholder Engagement
Central London

Stakeholder Engagement
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in the City of London by Category

The following tables expand on the one above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. They cover the same employment type, locality and period, with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each category:

Application Platforms
1 6 (3.95%) SharePoint
2 4 (2.63%) Confluence
3 2 (1.32%) Apache Spark
4 1 (0.66%) Adobe Experience Manager
4 1 (0.66%) Apache
4 1 (0.66%) CMS
4 1 (0.66%) HCL Notes
4 1 (0.66%) Oracle Workflow
Applications
1 12 (7.89%) Microsoft Excel
2 4 (2.63%) Microsoft Project
2 4 (2.63%) MS Visio
3 2 (1.32%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 1 (0.66%) Chatbot
4 1 (0.66%) Microsoft Office
Business Applications
1 3 (1.97%) Dynamics CRM
2 2 (1.32%) Aladdin
2 2 (1.32%) Remedy ITSM
2 2 (1.32%) SAP S/4HANA
3 1 (0.66%) Integrated Workplace Management System
3 1 (0.66%) Loan IQ
3 1 (0.66%) NetSuite
3 1 (0.66%) Oracle Assets
3 1 (0.66%) Oracle E-Business Tax
3 1 (0.66%) Oracle FAH
3 1 (0.66%) Oracle Financials
3 1 (0.66%) Oracle General Ledger
3 1 (0.66%) Oracle Internet Expenses
3 1 (0.66%) Oracle iProcurement
3 1 (0.66%) Oracle Payables
3 1 (0.66%) Oracle Receivables
3 1 (0.66%) Salesforce CRM
3 1 (0.66%) SAP FI-AR
3 1 (0.66%) SAP MDG
3 1 (0.66%) Workday HCM
Cloud Services
1 33 (21.71%) Azure
2 25 (16.45%) Power Platform
3 16 (10.53%) AWS
4 9 (5.92%) SaaS
5 7 (4.61%) GCP
5 7 (4.61%) Microsoft Copilot
6 6 (3.95%) Microsoft 365
7 5 (3.29%) Dynamics 365
8 4 (2.63%) Azure Data Factory
8 4 (2.63%) Azure Synapse Analytics
8 4 (2.63%) Microsoft Purview
8 4 (2.63%) SuccessFactors
9 3 (1.97%) Amazon Bedrock
9 3 (1.97%) Azure DevOps
9 3 (1.97%) Copilot Studio
9 3 (1.97%) GitHub
9 3 (1.97%) Serverless
10 2 (1.32%) Amazon SageMaker
10 2 (1.32%) AWS Step Functions
10 2 (1.32%) Power Automate
Communications & Networking
1 3 (1.97%) Network Security
2 1 (0.66%) Cisco IPT
2 1 (0.66%) Firewall
2 1 (0.66%) IP Telephony
2 1 (0.66%) LAN
2 1 (0.66%) NAS
2 1 (0.66%) PSTN
2 1 (0.66%) SAN
2 1 (0.66%) Structured Cabling
2 1 (0.66%) TCP/IP
2 1 (0.66%) VLAN
2 1 (0.66%) VoIP
2 1 (0.66%) WAN
2 1 (0.66%) Wireless
Database & Business Intelligence
1 18 (11.84%) Power BI
2 9 (5.92%) Metadata
3 6 (3.95%) Data Lake
4 2 (1.32%) Amazon Redshift
4 2 (1.32%) Data Mining
4 2 (1.32%) Data Warehouse
4 2 (1.32%) Electronic Patient Records
4 2 (1.32%) NoSQL
4 2 (1.32%) Tableau
5 1 (0.66%) Azure SQL Database
5 1 (0.66%) Big Data
5 1 (0.66%) Data Vault
5 1 (0.66%) DataStage
5 1 (0.66%) Enterprise Data Warehouse
5 1 (0.66%) Hadoop
5 1 (0.66%) Oracle BI Publisher
5 1 (0.66%) Oracle Database
5 1 (0.66%) Power Query
5 1 (0.66%) SAP BW
5 1 (0.66%) Semantic Layer
Development Applications
1 14 (9.21%) JIRA
2 2 (1.32%) GitLab
2 2 (1.32%) Zephyr
3 1 (0.66%) JDeveloper
3 1 (0.66%) Jenkins
3 1 (0.66%) JUnit
3 1 (0.66%) Mockito
3 1 (0.66%) Oracle Forms
3 1 (0.66%) Selenium
General
1 70 (46.05%) Social Skills
2 56 (36.84%) Finance
3 33 (21.71%) Analytical Skills
4 26 (17.11%) Public Sector
5 13 (8.55%) Banking
6 9 (5.92%) Influencing Skills
7 5 (3.29%) Documentation Skills
7 5 (3.29%) Presentation Skills
8 4 (2.63%) Police
9 3 (1.97%) Financial Institution
9 3 (1.97%) Investment Banking
9 3 (1.97%) Marketing
9 3 (1.97%) Organisational Skills
9 3 (1.97%) Retail
10 2 (1.32%) Front Office
10 2 (1.32%) Inclusion and Diversity
10 2 (1.32%) Legal
10 2 (1.32%) Local Government
10 2 (1.32%) Pharmaceutical
10 2 (1.32%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 26 (17.11%) Analyst
2 23 (15.13%) Architect
3 20 (13.16%) Lead
4 16 (10.53%) Business Analyst
4 16 (10.53%) Project Manager
4 16 (10.53%) Senior
5 9 (5.92%) Data Architect
6 8 (5.26%) Consultant
6 8 (5.26%) Data Analyst
7 6 (3.95%) Delivery Manager
7 6 (3.95%) Developer
7 6 (3.95%) Security Architect
8 5 (3.29%) Artificial Intelligence Architect
8 5 (3.29%) Change Manager
8 5 (3.29%) Security Manager
8 5 (3.29%) Strategy Architect
8 5 (3.29%) Strategy Manager
9 4 (2.63%) Data Business Analyst
9 4 (2.63%) Data Engineer
9 4 (2.63%) Enterprise Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 4 (2.63%) PySpark
2 2 (1.32%) .NET
2 2 (1.32%) Playwright
2 2 (1.32%) PyTorch
2 2 (1.32%) scikit-learn
2 2 (1.32%) Spring
2 2 (1.32%) Spring Boot
2 2 (1.32%) TensorFlow
2 2 (1.32%) XML
3 1 (0.66%) EDI
3 1 (0.66%) FastAPI
3 1 (0.66%) JSON
3 1 (0.66%) Kafka
3 1 (0.66%) Middleware
3 1 (0.66%) Oracle Fusion
3 1 (0.66%) Pandas
3 1 (0.66%) RabbitMQ
3 1 (0.66%) RESTful
3 1 (0.66%) Spring MVC
3 1 (0.66%) XSLT
Miscellaneous
1 11 (7.24%) Product Ownership
2 8 (5.26%) Cloud Native
3 5 (3.29%) Data Structures
3 5 (3.29%) Legacy Systems
4 4 (2.63%) AI Agents
4 4 (2.63%) Onboarding
4 4 (2.63%) Self-Motivation
5 3 (1.97%) Analytical Mindset
5 3 (1.97%) Security Posture
6 2 (1.32%) Cyber Threat
6 2 (1.32%) Reference Data
7 1 (0.66%) Data Protection Act
7 1 (0.66%) Derivative
7 1 (0.66%) Enterprise Storage
7 1 (0.66%) Fixed Income
7 1 (0.66%) FMCG
7 1 (0.66%) Freedom of Information
7 1 (0.66%) Mainframe
7 1 (0.66%) Management Information System
7 1 (0.66%) Replication
Operating Systems
1 3 (1.97%) Linux
1 3 (1.97%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 42 (27.63%) Stakeholder Management
2 40 (26.32%) Agile
3 32 (21.05%) Continuous Improvement
4 31 (20.39%) AI
4 31 (20.39%) Decision-Making
5 27 (17.76%) Analytics
6 25 (16.45%) Migration
7 24 (15.79%) Problem-Solving
8 23 (15.13%) Roadmaps
9 22 (14.47%) Business Intelligence
10 18 (11.84%) Data Governance
10 18 (11.84%) Requirements Gathering
11 17 (11.18%) Project Delivery
12 16 (10.53%) Project Management
12 16 (10.53%) Validation
13 15 (9.87%) Change Management
13 15 (9.87%) Data Modelling
14 14 (9.21%) CI/CD
14 14 (9.21%) DevOps
15 13 (8.55%) Machine Learning
Programming Languages
1 15 (9.87%) SQL
2 13 (8.55%) Python
3 4 (2.63%) Data Analysis Expressions
4 3 (1.97%) Bicep
4 3 (1.97%) C#
4 3 (1.97%) Java
5 2 (1.32%) T-SQL
6 1 (0.66%) Google Apps Script
6 1 (0.66%) Kusto Query Language
6 1 (0.66%) PL/SQL
6 1 (0.66%) PowerShell
6 1 (0.66%) Scala
6 1 (0.66%) Shell Script
6 1 (0.66%) VBA
Qualifications
1 24 (15.79%) Security Cleared
2 20 (13.16%) SC Cleared
3 9 (5.92%) Degree
4 5 (3.29%) DBS Check
4 5 (3.29%) PMP
5 3 (1.97%) Azure Certification
5 3 (1.97%) Microsoft Certification
5 3 (1.97%) PMI Certification
6 2 (1.32%) BPSS Clearance
6 2 (1.32%) CEH
6 2 (1.32%) Cisco Certification
6 2 (1.32%) DV Cleared
6 2 (1.32%) ITIL Certification
6 2 (1.32%) TOGAF Certification
7 1 (0.66%) (ISC)2 CCSP
7 1 (0.66%) CCSK
7 1 (0.66%) CHECK Team Leader
7 1 (0.66%) Computer Science Degree
7 1 (0.66%) CREST Certified
7 1 (0.66%) RIBA
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 21 (13.82%) Data Quality
2 14 (9.21%) QA
3 9 (5.92%) PMO
4 8 (5.26%) GDPR
4 8 (5.26%) ISO/IEC 27001
4 8 (5.26%) NIST
5 5 (3.29%) NCSC
6 4 (2.63%) Cyber Essentials
7 3 (1.97%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
7 3 (1.97%) SLA
8 2 (1.32%) Actionable Recommendations
8 2 (1.32%) GRC
8 2 (1.32%) ISO/IEC 27005
8 2 (1.32%) PERC
9 1 (0.66%) Accessibility
9 1 (0.66%) COBIT
9 1 (0.66%) EU AI Act
9 1 (0.66%) ISO/IEC 42001
9 1 (0.66%) JSP 440
9 1 (0.66%) Solvency II
System Software
1 3 (1.97%) Docker
2 2 (1.32%) Active Directory
2 2 (1.32%) VMware Infrastructure
3 1 (0.66%) NFS
Systems Management
1 5 (3.29%) Kubernetes
1 5 (3.29%) Terraform
2 3 (1.97%) Microsoft Intune
3 1 (0.66%) EMC VPLEX
3 1 (0.66%) Grafana
3 1 (0.66%) Prometheus
3 1 (0.66%) vMotion
Vendors
1 35 (23.03%) Microsoft
2 10 (6.58%) Databricks
3 8 (5.26%) SAP
3 8 (5.26%) ServiceNow
4 4 (2.63%) OpenAI
5 3 (1.97%) Oracle
5 3 (1.97%) Remedy
5 3 (1.97%) Salesforce
6 2 (1.32%) BMC
6 2 (1.32%) Cisco
6 2 (1.32%) Google
6 2 (1.32%) Informatica
6 2 (1.32%) MuleSoft
6 2 (1.32%) VMware
6 2 (1.32%) Workday
7 1 (0.66%) Alteryx
7 1 (0.66%) CyberArk
7 1 (0.66%) Meraki
7 1 (0.66%) Palantir
7 1 (0.66%) Pardot